Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.