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

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.