One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
I can offer you only: this world like a knife
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn