The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

The artist is the antenna of the race.