There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Writing a poem is discovering.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.