Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.