“There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.”

“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.”

“Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.”

“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”

“What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

“What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

“What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

“unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning”

“We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”

“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”

“Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.”