One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.

We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that di…

It is better to have the child in the chimney corner moved by what happens in the poem, in spite of his ignorance of its real meaning, than to have the poem a …

A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.

'I've always written poetry but never had the courage to really express myself until now.'

Her poetry is the diary or autobiography - though few diaries or autobiographies compare with it for intentional and, especially, unintentional truth - of an a…

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.