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

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.