. American poet literary critic children's author essayist novelist; US Poet Laureate
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. Go to Quote / Comment
They said, 'Here are the maps'; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;... Go to Quote / Comment
The head withdraws into its hatch (a boy's), The engines rise to their blind laboring roar,... Go to Quote / Comment
I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,... Go to Quote / Comment
It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown unwanted life. Go to Quote / Comment