You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river it took its voice from the rain and like the timber it steeped itself in the forests.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

In science one tries to tell people in such a way as to be understood by everyone something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry it's the exact opposite.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Write verse not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry then don't by any means mother it but try your hand at verse.