Don't Forget That Compared To A Grownup

... The Reason Why There Are So Few First-class Poets Is That Many People Have Intense Feelings Or First-class Minds But To Get The Two Together So That You Will Be Willing To Put A Poem Through Sixty Drafts, To Be That Self-critical, To Keep Breaking It Down, That Is What Is Rare. Right Now Most Poetry Is Just Self-indulgence.

It Looks As If I Were Meant To Be Alone, And That Any Hope Of Happiness Is Not Meant. Am I Too Old To Acquire The Knack For Happiness?

Though Friendship Is Not Quick To Burn It Is Explosive Stuff.

Anyone Who Is Going To Be A Writer Knows Enough At Fifteen To Write Several Novels.

I Think That Passion If Really Intense Is Always Destructive If Not To The Two Involved, Always To Other People.