When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.
Poetry Quotes
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.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
