You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

April is the cruellest month.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Art is the escape from personality.

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

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.