What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.