"Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary."

"There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely…"

"Poetry, like life, states that the very self of a thing is its relations, its having-to-do-with other things. Whateve…"

"The quiet of this afternoon is strange, haunting, awful; Hear that buzzing in the hot grass, coming from live things;…"

"Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual."

"If the sameness and difference of America were to become musical, it would be poetry."

"Every fact has music in it. The poet looks for it."

"Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger."

"If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake."

"A pessimist is a person who finds an oyster in a pearl."