Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.