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.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

I was the world in which I walked.

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

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

God is gracious to some very peculiar people.