I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

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

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.