The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
How red the rose that is the soldier
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.