Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.