The Poet Doesn't Invent. He Listens.

Listen Carefully To First Criticisms Made Of Your Work. Note Just What It Is About Your Work That Critics Don't Like - Then Cultivate It. That's The Only Part Of Your Work That's Individual And Worth Keeping.

Poetry Is A Religion Without Hope. The Poet Exhausts Himself In Its Service, Knowing That, In The Long Run, A Masterpiece Is Nothing But The Performance Of A Trained Dog On Very Shaky Ground.

One Must Not Mistake Majority For Truth.

Youth Is Certain What It Rejects Before It Knows What It Will Accept.

I'm Not Willing Just To Be Tolerated. That Wounds My Love Of Love And Of Liberty.