“I knew that nothing strangerhad ever happened, that nothingstranger could ever happen.”

“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.”

“I was made at right angles to the worldand I see it so. I can only see it so.”

“I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.”

“--Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.”

“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. ”

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”