74 quotes found
Poet · American · 1879–1955
American poet (1879–1955)
“Money is a kind of poetry.”
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”
“All history is modern history.”
“The mind can never be satisfied.”
“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”
“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
“I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.”
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
“The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound”
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”
“I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.”
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
“One must read poetry with one's nerves.”
“The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.”
“The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.”
“The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It...”
“Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.”
“After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination,Inanimate in an inert savoir.”
“A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.”
“The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
