~ Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~
~ Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~
~ Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~
~ Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~
~ Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~
~ Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~
~ Poetry: the best words in the best order. ~
~ Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions ~
~ Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. ~
~ Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ~
~ Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ~
~ Language is fossil poetry ~