"Forgive me, but I'm going to be as rude as a poet has to be."

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

"I often say that I am a conservative. I am not a reactionary. I am a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a progressive. I am a conservative."

"The mind is a peculiar thing. It works in its own ways."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."