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"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
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"Poet. To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds."
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"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
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"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
Experience
"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"
Old
"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
Poetry
"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other."
Crime
"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
Fear
"But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep."
Love
"The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?"
Love
"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
Lie
"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die."
Heart
"The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."
God
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