Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG