"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose"

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

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

"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"

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince"

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

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"

"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"