A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

[She was] the Judy Garland of American poetry.

tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of something softer
than the tenderness
with which i hold you.

This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.

[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.