The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.