Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
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.
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
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