No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with...
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
If you cannot be a poet be the poem.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life...
God is the perfect poet.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though...
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent...
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is...
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand...
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
A poem is never finished only abandoned.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Always be a poet even in prose.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is...
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
