Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

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

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.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness