The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.