All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed […]
Poetry Quotes
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often […]
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce’s mental slummings, And few young Auden’s coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter.
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
