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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

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