Category: poetry

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.

Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

In love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.