No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.