The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Poetry, I feel is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space, you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn’t go as readily as looking.[De poezij omgeeft ons overal doch het op papier brengen er van is iets wat helaas niet zoo grif gaat als het kijken.]
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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.
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Poetry makes life, what light and music do the stage.
Poetry is written with tears, novels with blood, and history with invisible ink.
