Poetry Quote by Richard Hugo — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“i hope that”

“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“MISERABLE”

“And that is the time to read poetry . . . when we are almost able to write it.”

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,”