It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.