Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.