"A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman."

"Poets don't drive. Never trust a poet who can drive. Never trust a poet at the wheel. If he can drive, distrust the p…"

"Poets are all who love, — who feel great truths, And tell them."

"A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"Poets and anarchists are always the first to go. Where. To the frontline. Wherever it is."

""There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not…"

"God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were."

"It must be the caress of the useless,/the endless sadness of being a poet,/of singing and singing, without breaking/t…"

"Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled."