Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
Poetry Quotes
The Poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of a man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, […]
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I […]
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
Poets and such persons talk about the public as if it were some enormous and abnormal monster-a huge hybrid between the cow they milk and the dragon that drinks their blood.
The discoveries of science leave the world as full of poetry as they found it.
I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
