Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may read more

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.

Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.