"Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images."

"The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something."

"Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches."

"There is nothing to do but keep on."

"All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted."

"Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling."

"The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect o…"

"There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of …"

"It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind."

"A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters."