“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to liv...”

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes H...”

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully.”

“By daily dying, I have come to be.”