Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Both errors tend to make him 'personal.' Po…

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which th…