Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

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.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.