The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Good religious poetry. . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.
Poetry is frosted fire.
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.
poetry is where the language is renewed.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.