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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I like poems that are complex.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

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

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.