Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.

morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.

morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.