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The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.

The poetry of speech.

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be