"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

"My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."

"Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

"Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'"

"One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"

"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."

"With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk."

"In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!"

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry."

"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."

"I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"Being a novelty had its advantages."

"I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."