My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.