The Purpose Of Literature Is To Turn

Poetry Is Not A Turning Loose Of Emotion, But An Escape From Emotion.

Every Phrase And Every Sentence Is An End And A Beginning, Every Poem An Epitaph.

The Ordinary Man's Experience Is Chaotic, Irregular, Fragmentary. [he] Falls In Love Or Reads Spinoza, And These Two Experiences Have Nothing To Do With Each Other, Or With The Noise Of The Typewriter, Or The Smell Of Cooking; In The Mind Of The Poet These Experiences Are Always Forming New Wholes

Home Is Where One Starts From.

The Lot Of Man Is Ceaseless Labor, Or Ceaseless Idleness, Which Is Still Harder.