You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
Poetry Quotes
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written – once, in short, he has learnt his trade – that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is […]
A poem is no place for an idea.
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems. It’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Poetry is the bill and coo of sex.
Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
