He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

I’m looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.