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.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

I was the world in which I walked.

Make the visible a little hard to see.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Poetry is the scholar's art.