The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

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

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

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

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.