The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.