Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.