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.
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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.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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.
You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
