Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
