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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as...
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Source: Horizon.
-- Robert...
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different...
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Source: On...
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception,...
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to...
To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live...
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand...
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me....
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to...
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household...
When the days of rejoicing are over,
When the flags are stowed safely away,
They will dream of another wild 'War...
The thundering text, the snivelling commentary.
Source: Ogres and Pygmies
--...
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Source: speech,...
Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark - a shining space
With the grave's narrowness,...
Love is a universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
As for the Freudian, it is a very low, Central European sort of humour.
Source:...
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Source:...
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good -- in spite of all the people who say he is very...