Poetry is like fish: if it’s fresh, it’s good; if it’s stale, it’s bad; and if you’re not certain, try it on the cat.
Poetry Quotes
The poet’s function is to make his imagination become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
But the world will know him mainly as that rare thing, a poet. And when the broadcasts and the manias, the economics and the sense of justice are but footnotes in some learned history, men will remember him because he was one of the few to whom is granted the gift of giving words to […]
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
While pensive poets painful vigils keep – Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own.
