A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Why then we should drop into poetry.
Why then we should drop into poetry.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning read more
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
