Poetry

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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

"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."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

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

"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)"

"I read poetry to save time."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."

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

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