I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

I think with my right hand.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.