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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then
Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.