The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
Poetry Quotes
All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet’s land.
Writing poetry involves luck, skill, dedication, patience, and disappointment. The poet throws the bait of his experience into the sea of language and waits and works for the right collection of words to attach themselves to it.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.
A poet who reads his verse in pubic may have nasty habits.
Writing a poem is discovering.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
