Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre ha...
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a litt...
Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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