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

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself but I liked singing chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Poetry is the work of poets not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

One will never again look at a birch tree after the Robert Frost poem in exactly the same way.

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

A poem is never finished only abandoned.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow I never saw anyone carrying a dog or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a a pet some years later in Kiev so I thought that life must have been different.

It's true you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.