I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.