“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.” WorldLooksStarsPerfectGrowingSkyPoetDutyWoodsForestsGloriousDelightfulSageLicenseGlowingRaptureGemsAstronomersFirmamentDelightful Things Book:The Masquerade: And Other Poems Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems
“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.” MenWorldLooksDreamEarthWalksSkyStreetsPoetMirrorsDust Author:William Baziotes
“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.” KnowsLooksPoetrySkyPoetCriticsCloudsPoetry IsProfessors Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.” WayMindFirstsLongBookMotherLanguageEmotionPracticeCasesKnowingSkyIdentityPoetGardenSuicideBrilliantFlamesLastingBalletFormalStrictRestraintElegantCrowDivergentChloeLong LastingFailed Relationship Author:Claudia Emerson
“Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.” MindWarEndsTogetherPoetryNightRoomsSunSkyPoetMoonSoldierPatchesDay And NightCadence Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.” WantI CanPoetrySkyFashionPoetGravesBedroomCavesAstrologyChaste Book:A Wave: Poems Source: A Wave: Poems