Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

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

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)-Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world-a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious-surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Oh phosphorescence. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within - is the genius behind poetry.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

What can be explained is not poetry.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.