Wine is bottled poetry.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I'm sorry man but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18 bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

I don't think I've ever read poetry ever.

I read poetry to save time.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Listen real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.

Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings and making music with them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.