"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."

"Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them."

"Poetry is the deification of reality."

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

"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."

"A poet's hope: to be,like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere."

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."

"All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."