he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.