Poetry is fact given over to imagery.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading, it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
It was interesting to see them together – Tagore, the poet with the head of a thinker, and Einstein, the thinker with the head of a poet. It seemed to an observer as though two planets were engaged in a chat.
When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
There are three kinds of limericks; limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present – and limericks.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
