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

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

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