“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”

“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”

“None but a poet can translate a poet.”

“Words, their sound and even their very appearance, are, of course, everything to the poet.”

“He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.”

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”

“It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet's admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not.”

“The poet…is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.”