We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

The work of creation is never without travail.