Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and thought has found words.

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.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar’s atmosphere.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.