[S]he used her intellect, and that action is the vitality of all poetry that is not song only, but poetry and song. The Second Person Singular and Other Essays (1921)
The quality of poetry is not strained. It has not to abide our repeated questions. It tests and is not tested. Every true lover of poetry knows that when he cites great lines it is not the poetry but the hearer that is to be judged. The Second Person Singular and Other Essays (1921)