In Australia not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image in its newness opens a future to language.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Journalism is concerned with events poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world poetry with the feel of the world.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it and every time you read it depending on your conditions you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel once you have read it you have grasped it.

In the total darkness poetry is still there and it is there for you.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry he has seen the presence of the creator.

Science fiction outside of poetry is the only literary field which has no limits no parameters whatsoever.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.