I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Love works miracles in stillness.

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.