
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters" in Horizon (September 1946).
General sources
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters" in Horizon (September 1946).
General sources
Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
Letter to Coventry Patmore, published in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (1955), edited by C. C. Abbott, p. 263
Letters, etc
Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born (Penguin, 1990), pp. 176
Table Talk" p. 63
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 66
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 200.
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)