Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.