“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”– Paul Muldoon Related Quotes “I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”– Henry David Thoreau “Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.”– Vicente Aleixandre “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”– Oscar Wilde