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.
Technique is the test of sincerity.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage