Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

The prose is a museum where all the old weapons of poetry are kept.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The world is full of poetry.

Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Don’t write love poems when you’re in love. Write them when you’re not in love.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It was at that age, that poetry came in search of me.

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.