Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

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

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

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

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

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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