Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.