"I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides …"

"In the best painting as in authentic poetry one is aware of moral pressures exerted... choices are important, moral p…"

"I love what the poet Stanley Kunitz said about dreaming of “an art so transparent that you can look through and see t…"

"Things come to me, they speak to me. Stanley Kunitz has had an enormous impact on my life. He once said that poetry i…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"