“The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.”

“The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me”

“The poem, through candor, brings back a power again
That gives a candid kind to everything.”

“…whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.”

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”

“The poet should be responsible to the poem.”

“The human mind is [a poet's] individual mind at first, but as soon as he writes a poem it becomes our [the readers'] minds too. There is no self-expression in [a poet's] poem, because once the poem is there the individual [poet] has disappeared. …there is really no such thing as self-expression in literature.”

“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”