A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

A poem should not mean but be.

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.