From Leaping Poetry...Again

Very often intellect is poetry's enemy because it is too much given to imitation, because it lifts the poet to a throne of sharp edges and makes him oblivious to the fact that he may suddenly be devoured by ants, or a great arsenic lobster may fall on his head.
-Federico Garcia Lorca (quoted in Robert Bly's Leaping Poetry)

I am thirsty for odors and laughs,
I am thirsty for new poems,
poems with no lilies or moons,
and no love affairs about to fail.
- Federico Garcia Lorca