A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxu….

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes..

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages..

For a poet, style is the only morality..

I write poetry in order to live more fully..

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet..

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language..

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir ….

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee..

There were poets before Homer..

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves..

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair..

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted..

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography..

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words..

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature..

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Thou….

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness..

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem..

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds..

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it..