What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.