“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”
“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.”
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.”
“Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying.”