Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry Quotes
Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet’s land.
Writing poetry involves luck, skill, dedication, patience, and disappointment. The poet throws the bait of his experience into the sea of language and waits and works for the right collection of words to attach themselves to it.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.
A poet who reads his verse in pubic may have nasty habits.
Writing a poem is discovering.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Any poet born in this century or in the last ten years of the preceding century who can honestly say that he has not been influenced by or learned greatly from the work of Ezra Pound deserves to be pitied rather than rebuked – the best of Pound’s writing – and it is in the […]
The poet John Keats wrote that understanding poetry required that we must be willing to put ourselves in a special state of mind, which Keats called “negative capability.” He described this state as one in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts; without any irritable reaching after facts and reason.
