“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”– Percy Bysshe Shelley Related Quotes “I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.”– Carl Sandburg “I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.”– James Dickey “The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”– Richard Rosen