Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

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

A poem is a small machine made of words.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.