Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully 'cause it's important.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.