112 quotes found
“Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.”
“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a l...”
“The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present to...”
“Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.”
“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”
“Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.”
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found it...”
“A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
“An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.”
“Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.”
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
“To have great poets there must be great audiences too.”
“Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.”
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.”
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.”
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.”
“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”
“For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
