Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

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

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I read poetry to save time.

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