Since boredom ADVANCES and boredom is the ROOT of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were BORED; THEREFORE they CREATED human beings.
When I first encountered the NAME of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I WOULD ever visit it, never MIND end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish ACADEMY and the Nobel FOUNDATION.
A real conversation always CONTAINS an invitation. You are inviting ANOTHER person to REVEAL herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they WANT.
A Poem does not grow by JERKS. As TREES in Spring PRODUCE a NEWRING of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
A lot of WRITERS that I know have told me that the first book you WRITE, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It CALLS you back.