The job of the poet is to render the world – to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Poetry Quotes
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
What is a poet? To whom does he address himself? And what language is expected of him? – He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has greater knowledge of human knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than […]
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
Verses, which do not teach men new and moving truths, do not deserve to be read.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
