Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.