Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

If the object of poetry is to make men then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I have nothing to say I am saying it and that is poetry.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Well you can't teach the poetry but you can teach the craft.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.