I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.