“the hillslike poets put onpurple thought againstthe magnificent clamor ofdaytorturedin gold”

“I am an i poet.”

“All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.”

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

“Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell-measure imagine,mystery,a kiss-not though mankind would rather know than feel”

“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.”

“Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you”