Poetry

"I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive."

"A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyones knowledge of himself and the world around him."

"These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, FitzGerald strung them on an English thread."

"In the hexameter rises the fountains silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."

"Made poetry a mere mechanic art."

"Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung."

"The poem... is a little myth of mans capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life."

"Verba togæ sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"An undevout poet is an impossibility."

"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."

"There exists a chance of every poem getting changed while reaching every reader. This ‘getting changed’ is a form of ‘getting translated’, in a way. So, every assimilation of any poem is a translation."