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

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

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

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.