“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”
“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.”