“No work of art has real import, none endures, unless the maker has something to say.”

Expression without a thought worth uttering does not last · Lecture, The Nature and Elements of Poetry (1892)

• Art
• Expression
• Meaning

“The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.”

Poetry as making, not as a substitute for argument · Critical essay

• Creation
• Expression
• Poetry