All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.