Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the...
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
