You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.