Gertrude Stein on poetry

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms