“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

“It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.”

“The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.”

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

“Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.”

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

“Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”