“One must read poetry with one's nerves.”
“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”
“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. ”
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”