The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

One writes in order to feel.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

Exchange is creation.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.