Poetry

"I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all."

"I read poetry to save time."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

"some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout."

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhereI go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)"

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."