At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.