Poetry Lies Its Way To The Truth.

Intelligence Recognizes What Has Happened. Genius Recognizes What Will Happen.

To Read A Poem With No Thought In Mind But To Paraphrase It Into A Single, Simple And Usually High-minded Prose Statement Is The Destruction Of Poetry.

You Don't Have To Suffer To Be A Poet; Adolescence Is Enough Suffering For Anyone.

If A Man Means His Writing Seriously, He Must Mean To Write Well. But How Can He Write Well Until He Learns To See What He Has Written Badly. His Progress Toward Good Writing And His Recognition Of Bad Writing Are Bound To Unfold At Something Like The Same Rate.

The Success Of The Poem Is Determined Not By How Much The Poet Felt In Writing It, But By How Much The Reader Feels In Reading It.