All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
