It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
Category: poetry
So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
On the other hand, if there’s an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I’ve lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself.
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.