In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love read more

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,
When the reason stands on its squarest toes,
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When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,
When the reason stands on its squarest toes,
When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--
There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;
But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,
And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"
And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--
Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production read more

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.