Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.