A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism

It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.