When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.
Poetry Quotes
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.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
You (Ezra Pound) made your great mistake when you abandoned the poetry business, and set up shop as a wizard in general practice. You wrote, in your day, some very good verse, and I had the pleasure, along with other literary buzzards, of calling attention to it at the time. But when you fell into […]
