Poetry Quotes

"The beautiful uncut hair of graves." "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." "This hour I tell things in confidence." "My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees." "The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot." "I think: the sky is blue and the flowers are red." "The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee a clover any time to him is aristocracy" "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery the revery alone will do if bees are few" "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night " "I want to write I want to write the songs of my people" "Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness" "The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race" "The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories" "Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties." "As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do." "Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" "Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust Cloud-dust Storm-dust And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale" "My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying."