FLOWER (2)

The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wordly or with the flower of the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some poetry books, I live without envy.

Lope de Vega



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BALANCE

The poet, like the painter harmonizes what seems to the vegetative eye irreconcilable aspects of the world, into a great design, a great balance.

William Blake



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PASSION (2)

Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.

Robert Graves





With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allen Poe



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LOGIC (2)

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon



Poetry differs in this respect from logic, that it is not subject to the active powers of the mind and that its birth and recurrence have no necessary connection with the consciousness or will.

Percey Bysshe Shelley



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IDOL

The common herd are lovers, poets are idolaters.

Charles Baudelaire



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HAIKU

Haiku doesn't change your life, but because your life is changing, you reach haiku.

Herman van Rompuy



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