I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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 decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages withou...
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how t...
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s alb...
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love i...
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their po...
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.