“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what i ...

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

“Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and ...

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the ...

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.”

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, i ...

“Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are ...

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

“Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a natio ...

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and t ...

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

“Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibilit ...

“I am in love with life, but I do not know what life is. Must I not, then, be in love with my idea ...

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

“The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being on ...

“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”