Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas nerved and blooded with emotions all held together by the delicate tough skin of words.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.