Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.
A Poet never denies creativity entrance.
Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet...
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness o...
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.
the gods are created by poets" --Ovid
Authority forgets a dying king
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
Poetry makes nothing happen.
The birds are in their trees,the toast is in the toaster,and the poets are at their windows.[...]The proofreaders are playing the ping-ponggame of proofreading,glancing back and forth from page to pag...
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.