Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spr...
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am...
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
A single wire hanger on a nail by itselfIsn't bad though a stack of them on a floorIs too gloomy for words.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.
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 t...
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
A change of style is a change of meaning.
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?Poets, Eve decided. You have to think they must.Okay,...
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