The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so. — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it. — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
