Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.