To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.