You have to trust your body to take care of you.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
