“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.”
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“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.”
“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.”
“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”
“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”
“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.”
“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
“France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.”
“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.”
“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”
“The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?”
“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”