Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

I’m nobody, who are you?

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

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

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

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Disagreement is something normal.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I’m really a normal football manager.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.