Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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

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

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.