“It is never the thing but the version of the thing.”

“They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.”

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”

“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”

“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one.”

“Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

“One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”