I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may read more

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly read more

Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.