The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

The finest poetry was first experience.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.