Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself but always some manner of life.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.

Mathematics is as it were a sensuous logic and relates to philosophy as do the arts music and plastic art to poetry.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully 'cause it's important.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now though there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes lots more high-concept categories and questions.

A book is sent out into the world and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible Homer Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.

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

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.