Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Poetry is a break for freedom.
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
All poetry is political, to some degree.
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
The act of making poetry is an act of hope.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.