Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading, it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
It was interesting to see them together – Tagore, the poet with the head of a thinker, and Einstein, the thinker with the head of a poet. It seemed to an observer as though two planets were engaged in a chat.
When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
There are three kinds of limericks; limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present – and limericks.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
It was poetry, which is to say, a mellifluous and caressing statement of the certainly not true. The two elements, of untruth and of beauty, are both important, and perhaps equally.
