The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

Death's long anabasis.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.