It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.