"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

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

"I'm always a bit suspicious when lyricists call themselves poets,"

"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right"

"I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

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

"I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America."

"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"

"The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject"

"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."

"(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."