“Any time is the time to make a poem.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
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Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.”
“Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.”
Source: Special deliveries: new and selected poems
“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”
Source: Carl Sandburg
“The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.”
“The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.”
Source: St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo
“The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.”
“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”
“Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.”
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”
“You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.”
“Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.”
Source: The Fifth Book of Peace
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
Source: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.”
“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”
Source: The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse
“I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats