Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
