Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Escrevo sem pensar tudo o que meu inconsciente grita. Penso depois: não só para corrigir, mas para justificar o que escrevi.

I have wished you something
None of the others would....