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

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

Next to love is the desire for love.

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

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.