Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read...
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the...
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not...
Art: If the object of poetry is to make men then poetry is the heir of...
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences...
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
I have written some songs but I would really call what I've done poetry at...
When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like...
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point so of course I wrote poetry.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the...
Well I still write poetry but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain...
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational...
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my...
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry...
If the object of poetry is to make men then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
I have nothing to say I am saying it and that is poetry.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of...
Well you can't teach the poetry but you can teach the craft.
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man...
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain...
I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself but I...
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric vast and wild.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary...
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness vigor and skill...
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which...
From what the moderns want we must learn what poetry should become from what...
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not...
The poetry of this one is called philosophical of that one philological of...
