817 quotes found
“I amyet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in loves frenzied stifled thr...”
“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is c...”
“The greater the pain, the greater the fun.”
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
“A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought --But no, a butterfly.”
“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is th...”
“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
“Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.”
“We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think thes...”
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
“Prose: words in their best order”
“Dont write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldnt be changed.Write with what gives you the most sensual satisfaction.Write in a hard-covered notebook with green lined pages...”
“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
“Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension o...”
“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”
“It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.”
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my lifes esteems; Even the dearest that I love...”
