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.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

All time is unreedemable.

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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.