112 quotes found
“Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.”
“A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
“When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.”
“Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.”
“Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.”
“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”
“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 its ...”
“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.”
“For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
