Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem the shepherd his lamb....
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
I know Helen would be proud, using her as a springboard for the voices of future poets. She was a pen in the hand of God. She had a natural talent and found the proper marketplace to sell her wares. And I know we have talented and gifted writers in this community.
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
As in painting, so in poetry.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
It really does lower cholesterol in a number of clinical studies in the Indian literature,
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
Poets are born, not paid.
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