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Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

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

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.