We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand..

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man..

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen..

To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time,….

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted..

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause..

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit..

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this..

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go..

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from….

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in po….

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead..

Love is proved in the letting go..

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet..