Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I've been born, and once is enough.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.