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I love, therefore I am.

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I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

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There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

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But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hil...more

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Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's...more

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When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:Hold ...more

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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few inde...more

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Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.