A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I am truly my mother's son.