So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.