Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can’t handle.
Poetry Quotes
In the case of many poets, the most important thing for them to do… is to write as little as possible.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know it is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any […]
All great poetry gives the illusion of a view of life.
The secret of poetry is never explained, – is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits.
Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write a poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are […]
