Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
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 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 first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country
True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.