I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. Read Summary
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. Read Summary
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Read Summary
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Read Summary
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. Read Summary
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Read Summary
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Read Summary
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Read Summary
The crown of literature is poetry. Read Summary
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Read Summary
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Read Summary
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Read Summary
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Read Summary
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Read Summary
A thought transfixed me: 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 the highest goal to which man can aspire. Read Summary
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. Read Summary
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Read Summary
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Read Summary
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. Read Summary
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. Read Summary