If I were a literary Pope sending out an Encyclical, I would tell these inexperienced young persons (who have literary aspirations) that nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment… Nobody except editors and school teachers and here and there a literary man knows how common […]
Poetry Quotes
Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.
No wonder poets sometime have to seem so much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
We call those poets who are first to mark Through earth’s dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight’s gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
Poets help us to love; that is their only function. And a fine use of their delightful vanity.
