[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.