Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Short fiction is the medium I love the most because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that though lacking a novel's length satisfies the reader.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

We recognise in the finished art which is the result of these conditions the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it when we see it but we can't define it.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

I am an enthusiast but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert gentle and discriminating friends who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.