It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.