The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.