Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And...
Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer;Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.
What you are trying to let go of...is already gone.
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without...
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
All good poems are victories over something.
Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope...Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves.No, sir.
Absolute equals nothingness.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poetrymelts my bones.enters my blood.and changesits composition.
Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.
funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
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...
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.
There can be no forced inspiration.
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