Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Everything has its poetry. 94

Every poem is a prayer, a supplication in the cacophony of humanity.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.