The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry getting the music out of the way and having only words the spoken word and then see what happens.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured such as poetry music painting public speaking.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

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

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

As I got older I really got into Tupac's poetry his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker and they liked us to learn poems by heart which I found I loved doing.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Prior to Wordsworth humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

When I arrived at Columbia I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry French history French literature.