Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

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

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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