Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.

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

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

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

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

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

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

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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 crown of literature is poetry.

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.

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 is the deification of reality.