Time is the substance of which we are made

Life itself is a quotation.

The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.