"I would like to be a person of words. I would like to be a person of ideas. I am not."

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

"The world is full of people who are always wanting to be somebody else."

"Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"I'm not a nature lover. I don't love nature. I love some of it. I love some people, but I don't love humanity."