Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.