He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
Poetry Quotes
I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Every true poet is inevitably a Columbus.
If it wasn’t for rap there would be no poetry in America. I think we went directly from Walt Whitman to Ice-T.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken – they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. (On Longfellow)
Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the spoken, living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over imagination, depriving us of its greatest benefits. In the forms of new poems will lie embedded the essences of future […]
Poetry is for women, I suppose? she said. Created by men with women in mind. Like Crimplene.
