“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
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Source: My World
“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”
“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”
“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”
“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”
“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”
“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.”
Source: Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991
“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”
“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”
“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.”
“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”
“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
Source: The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers
“Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.”
“I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.”
Source: The poetical works of James Gates Percival
“I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.”
“Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam