Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.