Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ceaselessly drunk. On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with ourselves poetry.