I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.