If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

All are / naked, none is safe.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.