1. “I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
2. “My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.”
3. “The poet is the complete lover of mankind.”
4. “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
5. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
6. “When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.”
7. “It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.”
8. “The public will not believe anything,, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
9. “Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream an reality.”
10. “All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.”
11. “All great art contains a element of the irrational.”
12. “The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
13. “As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.”
14. “I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.”
15. “There is no truth. only points of view.”
16. “It is part of poet’s work to show each an what he sees but does not know he sees.”
17. “I am one of those unhappy persons who inspires bores to the greatest flights of art.”
18. “Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”
19. “One’s own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.”
20. “A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
