A poem is a meteor.

There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

The statement that the process does not involve the poet as subject, to the extent to which that is true, precludes direct egotism. On the other hand, without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none.

Poetry is a satisfying of the desire for resemblance. As the mere satisfying of a desire, it is pleasurable. But poetry if it did nothing but satisfy a desire would not rise above the level of many lesser things. Its singularity is that in the act of satisfying the desire for resemblance it touches the sense of reality, it enhances the sense of reality, heightens it, intensifies it.

Perhaps,The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,But he that of repetition is most master.

After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.

Poets are never lonely even when they pretend to be.

From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a SunriseAll you need,To find poetry,Is to look for it with a lantern.