If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

The end is where we start from.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.