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In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.