Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write an editorial. I hope I can write about Trump; he's too major a force not to be written about.
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
All poetry is misrepresentation.
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
Good religious poetry. . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.