"…For a long time, it debilitated me a lot. Nothing that I wrote was good enough. I’d start writing then be like, “Nop…"

"People aren’t used to poetry that’s so easy and simple."

"I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. Al…"

"When I from life's unrest had earned the grace Of utter ease beside a quiet stream; When all that was had mingled in …"

"For sorrow and joy are one, and all the past And all the future mingle in a kiss."

"They said: "She dwelleth in some place apart, Immortal Truth, within whose eyes Who looks may find the secret of the …"

"The theorist should not let us forget the poet."

"No longer is it a matter of the narrow roads where traditional beauty is offered in its clarity and obviousness to th…"

"Our problem now is to determine whether the Ethiopian attitude that we discovered was the very essence of our whole w…"

"Surrealism lives! And it is young, ardent, and revolutionary. In 1943 surrealism surely remains, as always, an activi…"