Quotes about poetry

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom

Or poets with holy magic.

Hey-di-ho.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

What the poet has in mind ... is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.

Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.

The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.