The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present toget...
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
Poetry is a mug's game.
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...
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following...
Ah gospodine! - reći će sinovica; - naredite vi mirne duše da se i te knjige spale kao i druge, jer dok moj gospodar stric ozdravi od viteške bolesti, ne bi bilo čudo da njega, ako on uščita te knjige...
Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
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