The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.