poetry and poets [Theme] Page 2

Careless and blind to the wasted light of Wisdom!

And it finds its place and name.

And her sadness is just an invention of poets.

A poet is only one who is more capable of feeling the beauty of creation than others.

It is a pity that I am not an artist at all, it is a pity that I am not a poet at all.

26 years

You can't laugh. You can laugh. Ironically. If you don't know how it is, ironically, it's best not to laugh. And in general, you don’t have to read Brodsky, it’s enough just to love him, and for this, by the way, it’s probably better not to read.

Poetry is a harbinger of that state of mankind when it ceases to achieve and begins to use what has been achieved.

Love is a mystery to everyone except, I suppose, poets, but no one in their right mind can understand what they write about it. I think most of them can't either.

Written in iambic, although at the end there is a glitch in size, but this is not important and not fatal. Rather, on the contrary - a failure gives piquancy, a shade of such a dashing twist to an uncomplicated masterpiece.

Poets always take the weather personally. They always shove their feelings into something that does not have feelings.

The bitterest of muses is her soul sister.

Love is the poetry of feelings. But poetry, to tell the truth, is mediocre.

One cannot comprehend the life of a poet without knowing the process of imagination.