Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.
Poetry being. . . when we look from the center outward.
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
