Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Poetry Quotes
You (Ezra Pound) made your great mistake when you abandoned the poetry business, and set up shop as a wizard in general practice. You wrote, in your day, some very good verse, and I had the pleasure, along with other literary buzzards, of calling attention to it at the time. But when you fell into […]
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain – An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The ultimate can only be expressed in conduct. Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Language may die at the hands of the schoolmen: it is regenerated by the poets.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my friend.
Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present.
