Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
We love the things we love for what they are.
One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Don't be agnostic - be something.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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