Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar’s atmosphere.

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.

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.

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.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.