I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

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.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.