A poem is no place for an idea.
Poetry Quotes
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems. It’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Poetry is the bill and coo of sex.
Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Most of us, I suspect, would advise a mediocre poet, if he must translate, to avoid the greater originals and choose the less, as if these would be easier. But this is probably a mistake. The great poets have so much wealth that even if you lose two-thirds of it on the voyage home you […]
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
By the way, I heard an answer today to the platitude: ‘There’s no money in poetry.’ It was: ‘There’s no poetry in money, either.’
I am sorry to hear you are going to publish a poem. Can’t you suppress it? (Remark to Lord Porchester)
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
