When I was writing pretty poor poetry this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

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.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ceaselessly drunk. On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with ourselves 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.

I love romantic poetry.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy as looking at it.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction myth poetry anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

When it comes to atoms language can be used only as in poetry. The poet too is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

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

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry.

Rhyme that enslaved queen that supreme charm of our poetry that creator of our meter.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development and epitomizes both.

As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.