Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

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

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.