“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”

“It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.”

"The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!"

"A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest."

"In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south"

"May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!"

"I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests."

"... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs."

"And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction."

"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."

"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

"It’s history. It’s poetry."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

"Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart."

"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."

"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."

"Poetry and art are the breath of life to her."