“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small; we haven’t time, and to see takes time—like to have a friend takes time.”
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”
“Was it for this the clay grew tall?”
“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“I am the enemy you killed, my friend.”
“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”
“All a poet can do today is warn.”
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
“What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled.”
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”