The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to...
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with...
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
If you cannot be a poet be the poem.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life...
God is the perfect poet.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though...
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent...
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is...
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand...
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
A poem is never finished only abandoned.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Always be a poet even in prose.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is...
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A...
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through...
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable to point at frauds to take sides...
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words...
