Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived….

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are..

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and sm….

The work of the artist is to heal the soul..

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a lov….

I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest….

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak f….

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised..

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to….

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins..

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains..

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes..

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life..

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where t….

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves..

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing the….

As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myt….

Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to ….

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all..

Academia is a graveyard of poets..

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful..