Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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.