The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

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

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

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

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

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

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.