I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.