Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred and when they meet upon the same road one of them has to give place.

As an actor there is room for a certain amount of creativity but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina skill or ability to write a novel but I'd love to write short stories and poetry because those are my two passions.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

When truth has no burning then it is philosophy when it gets burning from the heart it becomes poetry.

I am two fools I know for loving and for saying so in whining poetry.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river it took its voice from the rain and like the timber it steeped itself in the forests.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

In science one tries to tell people in such a way as to be understood by everyone something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry it's the exact opposite.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Write verse not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry then don't by any means mother it but try your hand at verse.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ceaselessly drunk. On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.