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...

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and t...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a...

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rh...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ev...

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...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin f...

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the lim...

The poets have been mysteriously silent on...

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conce...

Immature poets imitate; matu...