poetry Quotes

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I read poetry to save time.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.