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

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

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.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

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