“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
“God is the perfect poet.”
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
“No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?”
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
“Every single soul is a poem.”
“A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.”
“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”
“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”
“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”