Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
I finally understood that I didnβt lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.
Write what will stop your breath if you donβt write.
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.