The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
... we do not admire what we cannot understand.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
The mind is an enchanting thing.
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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