There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

God is the perfect poet.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.