poetry

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others . . . And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

One reads poetry with one's nerves.

Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

A poem is a meteor.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.