I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.