A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A poem is no place for an idea.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beauti ...

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and tru ...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.