"The only certain freedom’s in departure."

"The reason why we have poetry is to have a momentary stay against confusion."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"You come too. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. You come too."