To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.