“As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.”

“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”

“There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet”

“One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.”