He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Poetry Quotes
Poets aren’t very useful Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful.
Lo! I the man for trifles unsurpassed: You mayn’t admire me but I hold you fast. Great themes are for great bards: enough to see – You oft rereading my light poetry!
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
They are so beautiful that I want to fit them all into my poem… I catch them in midflight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, […]
Vain was the chief’s, the sage’s pride! They had no poet, and they died.
Then, Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Poetry is the sculpture of thought.
The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts of the human experience alive until […]
