Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden