Technique is the test of sincerity.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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

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

Presentation, not reference.

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