"The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it."

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

"Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"I am not a liberal. I am a radical. I am as radical as anything you ever saw."

"A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."