War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.