All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may read more

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love read more

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.