That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the….

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry,….

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system..

What happens in the heart simply happens..