Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.