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.
Poetry Quotes
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 […]
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain – An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The ultimate can only be expressed in conduct. Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Language may die at the hands of the schoolmen: it is regenerated by the poets.
