I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.