"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."

"The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never.

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."