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I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.