“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
“Poetry makes nothing happen.”
“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.”
“Can nothing change what is about to happen”