“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

“If music and sweet poetry agree.
As they must needs (the sister and the brother),
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,
Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.”

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”

“Mathematics, like music and poetry, is a creation of the mind; … the primary task of the mathematician, like that of any other artist, is to extend man's mental horizon by representation and interpretation.”

“Good poetry is not contained in words that are difficult to understand and interpret. Good poetry is based on its ability to touch and move feelings.”

“Good poetry is not contained in words that are difficult to understand and interpret. Good poetry is based on its ability to touch and move feelings.”

“poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality…. poetry is being, not doing…. if poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about selfstyled obligations and duties and responsibilities...”

“Don’t you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?”

“Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.”

“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”