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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.