Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

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.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

Make the visible a little hard to see.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.