I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
The cliche is dead poetry.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
