There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Love is proved in the letting go.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.