Authority forgets a dying king
the gods are created by poets" --Ovid
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the...
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.
A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
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.
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