One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

How red the rose that is the soldier

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

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.