Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved

This love is silent