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.
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In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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.
The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No read more
The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
