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.

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

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.