Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

We were put on this earth to make things.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

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