Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
“But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.”
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”