Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Only through time time is conquered

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

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.