Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

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

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.