Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may read more

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a read more

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.