I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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

life is long between the desire and the spasm.