They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question