Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

I love romantic poetry.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy as looking at it.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction myth poetry anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

When it comes to atoms language can be used only as in poetry. The poet too is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.