A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.