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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Superior people never make long visits.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

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