What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

Where is the Life we lost in living?

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.