Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.