“A Poet is needed to fully interpret a poet”

“If poets spoke their poetry, they would not need to write it.”

“There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.”

“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”

“None but a poet can translate a poet.”

“There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet's admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”