A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.