“The question, “What is poetry?” has been answered innumerable times, often by the subtlest and clearest minds, and as many times has it been answered differently.”

Recognising that poetry continually resists a single final definition · Essay, The Lyric, What Is Poetry

• Poetry
• Truth

“It so happens that this energy, next to the poetic energy, is the most impressive and satisfying of all mental activities, and while poetry may exist independently of it, the fact remains that it very rarely does so.”

Valuing formal organisation as poetry’s closest creative companion · Essay, The Lyric, Lyric Forms

• Art
• Poetry

“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

Viewing long poems as shaped sequences of individual imaginative moments · Essay, The Lyric, Lyric Forms

• Art
• Poetry
• Time