"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"One had to be an artist and a poet before one could be a good scientist."

"I'm not a nature poet. I've only written two poems about nature."

"I'm not a nature poet. I have only written two poems without a human being in them."