If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.