“I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”

“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”

“It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.”

“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”

“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”

“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”

“Language cares.”

“I have a plot, but not much happens.”

“I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”

“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.”

“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”