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- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.