Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
The greatest masterpiece of literature is only a dictionary out of order.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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