"I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they c…"

"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…"

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