I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.