"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true"
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."