The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.