The mind is smaller than the eye.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

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.