All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice exploitation humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and in working them up into poetry to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Yet it is true poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

It's just poetry beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them or to use words like beauty excellence art poetry with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract to express it in the most general terms to find some universal formula for it.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes not at all.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse the illicit the absurd.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler not an Ezra a Walt a thing of beauty a joy forever.

But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant solely for recitation is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

The beauty the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for what five six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.