I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I […]
Poetry Quotes
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
Poets and such persons talk about the public as if it were some enormous and abnormal monster-a huge hybrid between the cow they milk and the dragon that drinks their blood.
The discoveries of science leave the world as full of poetry as they found it.
I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Mists, bones, the singer himself, love-stories, And all least furlable things got “furled”; Not with any design to conceal their glories, But simply and solely to rhyme with “world.” O if “billows” and “pillows” and “hours” and “flowers,” And all the brave rhymes of an elder day, Could be furled together, this genial weather, And […]
I know that poetry is indispensible, but to what I could not say.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
