“Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things.”
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”
“Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.”
“Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”