poetry
“And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough, and life slips by like a field mouse not shaking the grass.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, ‘‘Let Newton be!’’ and all was light.”
“Poetry is the grandest effort of a great soul struggling with the storms of this lower world.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.”
“Literature is news that stays news.”
“The poet is a faker who pretends so completely that he even pretends the pain he truly feels.”
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
“Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.”
“I want to be at least as alive as the place that surrounds me.”
“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“All a poet can do today is warn.”