Poems that praise God must create the belief that God believes in the writer of the poem.

It is hard to be both plain and direct and not appear a fool to contemporaries fed on allusions, sibylline coziness, hints and shadows.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or enjoy poetry, without [an] unsoundness of mind.

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

Live in perpetual, great astonishment.

Beware when you think you have found what you want.

— “The Poet’s Business”