Quotes About Balance

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

All things want to float.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.