When you're looking that far out you're giving people their place in the universe it touches people. Science is often visual so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry it touches you.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I want a fever in poetry: a fever and tranquillity.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry I can do that.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

There are men who can write poetry and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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.