Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.
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.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
The crown of literature is poetry.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.