Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
God is gracious to some very peculiar people.