If food is poetry is not poetry also food?

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

All religion my friend is simply evolved out of fraud fear greed imagination and poetry.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values some of the same techniques.

If you want to see mankind fully look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one and for this reason the family is total poetry.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

Breathe-in experience breathe-out poetry.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Experience has taught me when I am shaving of a morning to keep watch over my thoughts because if a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.