Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.