“A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.”

“Human life can be lived like a poem.”

“There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified — more supremely noble than this very poem — this poem per se — this poem which is a poem and nothing more — this poem written solely for the poem's sake.”

“A poem is a living organism.”

“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.”

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

“Poem me no poems.”

“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

“The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.”

“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”