Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.