74 quotes found
Poet · American · 1879–1955
American poet (1879–1955)
“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
“After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.”
“It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-...”
“Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary noon ...”
“Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.”
“In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
“Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
“The Plot Against The GiantFirst GirlWhen this yokel comes maundering,Whetting his hacker,I shall run before him,Diffusing the civilest odorsOut of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.It will check him....”
“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
“There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things”
