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

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.

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

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.

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.

Poetry is something best words in the best order.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Poetry is the revolution and the raising of consciousness.

Love recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.