There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.

The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

There is no such thing as a silent poem.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

I'm bereft of poetry on this planet, from where the beauties of Creation are vanishing away furiously.”

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Poetry is neither a mystery nor a symbol nor a demon. Poetry is nothing more than a lonely consolation for the owner of a sickly soul and a man of solitude.