Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.