Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite..

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and….

Always be a poet, even in prose..

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it..

Writing poetry is a state of free float..

Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the r….

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus..

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular..

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in th….

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot..

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science..

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his ….

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say som….

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp wi….

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind..

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it..

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coi….

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity..

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game..

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep..

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wi….