People who cannot feel punish those who do.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.