No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.