No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.