Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.
When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally...
Poetry makes nothing happen.
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can...
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
The bats inebriate the sky . . .
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre ha...
Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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.
Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonec...
I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.
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