Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.