Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.
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...
Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, ph...
Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men of intellect. You take your being from your mothers. You live to the full: it is given you to love w...
The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.
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 poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.
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,...
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...
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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.