Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

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

"The blood jet is poetry

Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.