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.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning read more

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.