Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.