A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: it's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
A haiku is an open door that looks shut.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Deplore what is to be deplored/ And then find out the rest
Let the storm wash the plates.
My delight in writing poetry is taking words out and throwing them away.