Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations the same hopes and fears to which the Bible addresses itself it might rival it in distribution.
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Money is a kind of poetry.
Everything is complicated if that were not so life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Poor dear silly Spring preparing her annual surprise!
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning a sitting on the throne at noon a pageant in the evening.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.