Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.