Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
I think poetry is best read to oneself.
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Poetry is the disease of the brain.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.
The truest poetry is the most feigning.