It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

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.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

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

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

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.