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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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
