“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

“I was too absorbed to be responsive”

“In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”

“We're going through the black air with our arms wide and our feet straight out behind like a dolphin's tail, and we're going to think we'll never hit the silver down there till suddenly it'll be all warm round us and full of little kissing, caressing waves.”

“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them ‘clever.”

“There's no 'Safety First' in Art.”