The Only Wisdom We Can Hope To

A Thousand Policemen Directing Traffic Cannot Tell You Why You Come Or Where You Go.

Poets In Our Civilization, As It Exists At Present, Must Be Difficult...the Poet Must Become More And More Comprehensive, More Allusive, More Indirect, In Order To Force, To Dislocate If Necessary, Language Into Its Meaning.

Taking The Question In General, I Should Say, In The Case Of Many Poets, That The Most Important Thing For Them To Do ... Is To Write As Little As Possible

I Was Too Slow A Mover To Be A Boxer. It Was Much Easier To Be A Poet.

Our Emotions Are Only “incidents” In The Effort To Keep Day And Night Together.