What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.