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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

A poet’s hope is to write well, and the poet’s art is writing the truth.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.