Quotes On: Poetry

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.