HERO

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine



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HOMESICKNESS

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost


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PAINTING

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci



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SCIENCE (4)

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins



Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

Ezra Pound



In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by all, something that no one ever knew before. In poetry it is the opposite.

Paul Dirac



I think poetry is the science of missing.

Herman de Coninck




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ENVY

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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SELECTION

Poets don't survive the centuries thanks to their collected works in six volumes but because of what seeps through from these books in all kinds of anthologies. Unfortunately, most of this selection process is left to people who arent'good for anything else and, on second thoughts, even can't handle this noble art.

Bart Govaert



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SONNET

My sonnets would lose part of their charm when being explained.

Gérard de Nerval



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