Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.