“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“What we live by we die by.”

“What are we?Young or new?We must be something.”

“Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.”