Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Poetry was a meeting of mind and heart, I felt at one with poetry itself. I like the concentrated language, the play with form, and the way you can muck around with words in a way that you can’t in a novel. Poetry allows you to be intense, because to some degree people expect it.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.