They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

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

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

I was the world in which I walked.