"The storm unfolds."

"the set pieces of your faces stir me — leading citizens — but not in the same way."

"I lie here thinking of you:—the stain of love is upon the world!"

"One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others hap…"

"To tell the truth, I myself never quite feel that I know what I am talking about — if I did, and when I do, the thing…"

"It is in tune with the tempo of life — scattered yet welded into the whole, — broken, yet woven together."

"The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic."

"Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation…"

"It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfactio…"

"Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrins…"