Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

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

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.