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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.