It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.
The self is no mystery, the mystery is That there is something for us to stand on
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made.
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.