Things explain each other, not themselves.

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

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

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.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

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

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.