“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”

“The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.”

“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed… 'to look at it through poetry.”

“The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story. It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.”

“Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.”

“There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .”