Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.
This joy you feel is life.
Don’t write about what you don’t know even if you don’t know it.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.