Entry 205

Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost


Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato


Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic


Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray


Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T.S. Eliot