Time is the substance of which we are made

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.