It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

Only silence perfects silence.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.