The beauty the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for what five six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself but always some manner of life.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.

Mathematics is as it were a sensuous logic and relates to philosophy as do the arts music and plastic art to poetry.