I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.