Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Use this quote
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. Use this quote
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. Use this quote
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Use this quote
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. Use this quote
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. Use this quote
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. Use this quote
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' Use this quote
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Use this quote
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. Use this quote
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Use this quote
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. Use this quote
Money is a kind of poetry. Use this quote
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. Use this quote
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. Use this quote
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Use this quote
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. Use this quote
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. Use this quote