Occupation: Poet Birth: December 22, 1905 Death: June 6, 1982
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We….
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization..
The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the populat….
Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospit….
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism..
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life..
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i….
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not..
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust..
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and….
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc….
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience..
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who ….
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enoug….
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief….
We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s….
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation..
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever….
There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to ….
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book..