Human kind cannot bear much reality.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.