A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
Poetry is poetry, and one’s objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one’s objective in music is to achieve music.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Poetry is like fish: if it’s fresh, it’s good; if it’s stale, it’s bad; and if you’re not certain, try it on the cat.
The poet’s function is to make his imagination become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
But the world will know him mainly as that rare thing, a poet. And when the broadcasts and the manias, the economics and the sense of justice are but footnotes in some learned history, men will remember him because he was one of the few to whom is granted the gift of giving words to […]
