“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
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Source: Emerson: Poems
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
Source: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.”
Source: Selected poems
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
Source: Young Poet's Primer
“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso
“Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
Source: Selected essays
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.”
“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Source: Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
“Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.”
Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems