Can you remember? when we thought

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.