"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."
"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."