A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

Twitter should ban my mother.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.