When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Poetry is a mug's game.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.