 As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. |
| Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. |
| It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. |
| Poetry is all nouns and verbs. |
| The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. |
| A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. |
| We are suffering from too much sarcasm. |
| There never was a war that was not inward. |
| If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try. |
| Superior people never make long visits. |
| Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. |
| When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. |
| In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. |
| Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. |
| If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. |
| The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. |
| You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. |
| My father used to say superior people never make long visits. |
| Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. |
| Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. |
