Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.