I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butchers the poets equal there
All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere
