We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.