I am always asked how it is that my opinions have changed so little since my youth. It is because I got to them by poetry. As I always say, the aesthetic is the most convincing and permanent.
Poetry Quotes
It is a part of the poet’s work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
Poetry is poetry, and one’s objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one’s objective in music is to achieve music.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
