The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.