poetry
“I hold with those who favor fire.”
“Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.”
“I have been one acquainted with the night.”
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written.”
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.”
“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
“Spend the years of learning squandering; courage for the years of wandering.”
“The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.”
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.”
“He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
“Whirl is king, having driven out Zeus.”
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”