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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the read more
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 sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with read more
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
