Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Men expect too much, do too little.