Poet Quotes and aphorisms about intelligence e. e. cummings John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Menander Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Phaedrus Louis Dudek ,, In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere ... Comte de Lautreamont James Fenton ,, An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small nu... Diane Ackerman