"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"Money is a kind of poetry"

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"

"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice"

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

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars"

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"