I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

We were put on this earth to make things.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.