A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in amor with language.
W. H. Auden
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
A prose writer gets tired of escritura prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on escritura prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
All bad poesía springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without comida for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two o three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Even when poesía has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
Everything one invents is true, tu may be perfectly sure of that. poesía is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Genuine poesía can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in amor with language.
W. H. Auden
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
A prose writer gets tired of escritura prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on escritura prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
All bad poesía springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without comida for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two o three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Even when poesía has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
Everything one invents is true, tu may be perfectly sure of that. poesía is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Genuine poesía can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot