Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am...
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.
Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For...
Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand o...
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree
We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Poetry is a mug's game.
Without space, there is no time.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job