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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Oct 1, 2025
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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 not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
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.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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