It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.