Poetry Quotes

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

The art of harvesting pain – poetry.

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

Poems are nothing more than raindrops on a page falling from an open soul, staining the page one shade darker, and opening the one closed passage between me and you.

All this time I knew I needed some really good therapy and I found it —in poetry.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.