I was the world in which I walked.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

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