Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
It's easier to quote poets than to read them.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: it's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
A haiku is an open door that looks shut.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Deplore what is to be deplored/ And then find out the rest
Let the storm wash the plates.
My delight in writing poetry is taking words out and throwing them away.