I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Create and stir other people to create.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.