Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

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

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

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

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

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