A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Maybe it is something to do with age but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.
Listen real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.
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.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science along with behaviour control genetic engineering transplanted heads computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry in painting and in music.