Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
We love the things we love for what they are.
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.