I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.