The wine is bottled poetry.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles of the poor. Forget depicting the beauty of passions and present your poetry as a necklace of thought gems to swell the soul.

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

With poetry, you take the stock and boil it down to where it’s a glaze. It is the elixir of language

To be a poet is to be lulled by the wind,
To follow the moon in dreams, and drift with the clouds.

Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine

Wine is bottled poetry.

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.

And we do want poetry for its beauty […] Yes, only for its beauty; for its moral power over us—its teaching, comforting, and elevating power all depend on its beauty.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry."

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry is life distilled.