It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.