'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.