“'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
