"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

"Thinking is not to be done by proxy."

"I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light."

"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts."

"A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found its words."