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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.