Revision is its own reward.
Omissions are not accidents.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.