I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

"Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems.
They say this.
This is the penalty.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

<b>The Martyr Poets</b>

The Martyr Poets — did not tell — But wrought their Pang in syllable — That when their mortal name be numb — Their mortal fate — encourage Some — The Martyr Painters — never spoke — Bequeathing — rather — to their Work
That when their conscious fingers cease — Some seek in Art — the Art of Peace —