These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. Collected Poems (1966)
The work of art … is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Collected Poems (1966)
Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist’s feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling. Collected Poems (1966)