I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future. Poetry and Anarchism (1938)
Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth. What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
The process of poetry consists firstly in maintaining this vision in its integrity and secondly in expressing this vision in words. Form in Modern Poetry (1932)
Poetry is properly speaking a transcendental quality, a sudden transformation in which words assume a particular influence. Form in Modern Poetry (1932)