Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.

It's a very important policy statement that clears the air and brings clarity to the issue. I think it will greatly enhance the U.S.-China relationship.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.