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

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

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.

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.

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.