Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.