Poetry Quotes

Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading, it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

It was interesting to see them together – Tagore, the poet with the head of a thinker, and Einstein, the thinker with the head of a poet. It seemed to an observer as though two planets were engaged in a chat.

When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

There are three kinds of limericks; limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present – and limericks.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

It was poetry, which is to say, a mellifluous and caressing statement of the certainly not true. The two elements, of untruth and of beauty, are both important, and perhaps equally.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.