The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

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