If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I read poetry to save time.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.