Great Poetry Quotations

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.