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

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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