Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses..
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earl….
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical..
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet..
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state..
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know..
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy..
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history..
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't..
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable..
To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in..
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems..
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart.….
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust..