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

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

In the mountains, there you feel free.