The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
