What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.