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A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. - [Poets] Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. - [Accuracy] He gripped more closely the essential prose As being, in a world so falsified, The one integrity for him, the one Discovery still possible to make, To which all poems were incident, unless That prose should wear a poem's guise at last. - [Prose] In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. - [Poetry] Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - [Truth] Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music. - [Poetry] The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. - [Royalty] The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. - [Poets] The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. - [Life]
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