The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.