We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. opens all doors. you can walk through any one that suits you.

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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