“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.”
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“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
“I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.”
“I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.”
“I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.”
“Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”
“I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.”
“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
“Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.”
“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”
“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
“Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.”
“Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.”
“The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.”
“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.”
“When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.”
“I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.”
“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.”
“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”