“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ”

“The day will happen whether or not you get up.”

“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.”

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day what he cannot define. It is feeling that is first. What one cannot help but sense in good poetry is a sense of the whole language stirring toward richer possibilities than one could have foreseen.”

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet”

“I have one head that wants to be good,And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up,One of my heads is sad.”