Nature made the fields and man the cities.
In nature there are few sharp lines.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
I am two with nature.
We have the power to turn against our creators.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
