"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."

"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth anything."

"School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past."

"I'm not a materialist. I'm a realist."