The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.