Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither...
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul...
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have...
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.