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.
Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.
Poetry makes nothing happen.
Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.
A poem is a meteor.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
We are all poets, really.
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can...
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...
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Without space, there is no time.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
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