Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1892 Death: April 20, 1982
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it ….
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man..
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned….
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever..
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a rou….
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from….
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit..
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see in….
They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river..
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it..