Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Write drunk, revise sober.
Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
