Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
