"Poetry lies its way to the truth"

"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"

"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"

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"