In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood E….

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians..

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read..

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper..

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad..

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoi….

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow..

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote..

Poems come from incomplete knowledge..

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad..

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose..

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them..

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun..

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart..

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has nev….

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment..

Whatever is not stone is light.

Poetry is frosted fire..

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat..

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the ….

Poets are born, not paid..