"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate"

"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure"

"Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache"