A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.