To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.