Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
When will the death Of Death ever come? from "The Siege
Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. (from "Gratitude")
There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
No one loves us here, let’s go to Mars.
