There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

to teach without zest is a crime.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.