Personality is everything in art and poetry.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as 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.