Poetry is a matter of life not just a matter of language.

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be but it does what it sets out to do.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke you've lost the whole thing.

Music has a poetry of its own and that poetry is called melody.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound and when you understand it it is only ridiculous.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry is an art the easiest to dabble in but the hardest to reach true excellence.