Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Do I dare disturb the universe?

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.