A Poet Is A Professional Maker Of

Civilizations Should Be Measured By The Degree Of Diversity Attained And The Degree Of Unity Retained.

It's Frightfully Important For A Writer To Be His Age, Not To Be Younger Or Older Than He Is. One Might Ask, "what Should I Write At The Age Of Sixty-four," But Never, "what Should I Write In 1940."

What Answer To The Meaning Of Existence Should One Require Beyond The Right To Exercise One's Gifts?

A Person Incapable Of Imaging Another World Than Given To Him By His Senses Would Be Subhuman, And A Person Who Identifies His Imaginary World With The World Of Sensory Fact Has Become Insane.

There Was Still Gold And Silver In The Mountains, And Hunger Was A More Immediate Sorrow