The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

The word is the making of the world