Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Use this quote
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. Use this quote
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. Use this quote
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. Use this quote
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. Use this quote
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. Use this quote
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Use this quote
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Use this quote
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. Use this quote
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. Use this quote
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Use this quote
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. Use this quote
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Use this quote
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. Use this quote
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. Use this quote
Every single soul is a poem. Use this quote
Poetry is the deification of reality. Use this quote
The moment of change is the only poem. Use this quote
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Use this quote
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. Use this quote