Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
Let all your thinks be thanks.