
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Argonautica, Book II, Lines 439–440
Hactenus in populos vati, Samothraca, diem que missa mane sacrisque metum servemus opertis.
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Section 37
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
On Nelson Algren, Talking to Myself Bk. 4 (1973)
Conclusion, Part Second, II
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56
Variants:
Poetry is the deification of reality.
As quoted in Life magazine (4 January 1963)
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 247
Army Hymn; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)