Poetry is life distilled..

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your su….

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value t….

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by u….

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you..

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as thoug….

The poetry of speech..

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the….

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts..

Let your poem be kept nine years..

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy..

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs..

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the sligh….

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through ….