In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.