We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
