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.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

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

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.