Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
It's easier to quote poets than to read them.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The cube had food and maybe ammo. And immortality.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
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.