Behind You Swiftly The Figure Comes Softly,

My Deepest Feeling About Politicians Is That They Are Dangerous Lunatics To Be Avoided When Possible And Carefully Humored; People, Above All, To Whom One Must Never Tell The Truth.

What Answer To The Meaning Of Existence Should One Require Beyond The Right To Exercise One's Gifts?

Every American Poet Feels That The Whole Responsibility For Contemporary Poetry Has Fallen Upon His Shoulders, That He Is A Literary Aristocracy Of One.

No Person Can Be A Great Leader Unless He Takes Genuine Joy In The Successes Of Those Under Him.

As A Poet, There Is Only One Political Duty, And That Is To Defend One's Language From Corruption.