It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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

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.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

To make an end is to make a beginning.