It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.