All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I love romantic poetry.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!