Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

The most dangerous thing is not failure, but complacency.

"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."

成为一个诗人，就是要有一个如此敏锐的灵魂，以至于没有任何品质的阴影能逃过它的眼睛。