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

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.