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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 a mixture of common sense which not all have with an uncommon sense which very few have.