The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light.

Bold thought, untiring imagination, softness and harmony, make a true poem.

Scott's life was a true poem, of which the music entered into all he wrote.

A true poem is a gallery of pictures.

Milton himself did not believe more ardently that a poet's life ought to be a true poem.

Else it is no true poem.

The "Hermann and Dorothea" of the latter (1798) was the first true poem written in modern hexameters.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it.

He hopes, in his introduction to this new selection, that readers "may experience the delight that a true poem can bring before the mind's eye".

It sounds correct when Milton says: "He who would not be frustrate of his Power to write well ought himself to be a true poem."

The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.

And true poems have been fleeing and in flight on the PoetryProject website since January 1st.

We speak out of too petty a spirit to each other; the true poems, said Whitman:

But his poems are true poems, and much finer than those written by the bishops of the seventeenth century.