There is a certain justice in criticism..

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whi….

I think continually of those who were truly great..

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust.

In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I….

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do..

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can….

When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely fel….

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future..

A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspi….

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife..

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words..

But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is….

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit..

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself..

My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one..

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center..

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution..

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and ….

All that you can imagine you already know..