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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.