I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders listens penetrates where the earlier less developed consciousness passed lightly by is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

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