The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Poetry Quotes
Whatever my life has been it has been single in purpose, single in design and constantly directed to the one end of discovery, if possible, of some purpose in being alive… Poetry, an art, is what answer I have.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
I think there is no such thing as a long poem. If it is long it isn’t a poem; it is something else. A book like John Brown’s Body, for instance, is not a poem – it is a series of poems tied together with cord. Poetry is intensity, and nothing is intense for long.
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
My question is; “When did other people give up the ideas of being a poet?” You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why the other people stopped?
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
