Our mother-tongue, which truly of itself is both full enough for prose and stately enough for verse, hath long time been counted most bare and barren of both; which default when as some endeavoured to salve and cure, they patched up the holes with rags from other languages.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another; they might also ask themselves how much poetry of any period they can honestly say that they understand.
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.