Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.