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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

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

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.