No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.