“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
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“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.”
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”