Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.