I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these a…

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished readi…

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitivene…