For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Poetry Quotes
While pensive poets painful vigils keep – Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all those incorporeal spirits, […]
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive […]
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
