poetry

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains. Which only poets know.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of belief." A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.