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

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

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

The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.