There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.