“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”
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“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“Why should poetry have to make sense?”
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”