I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. Use this quote
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Use this quote
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. Use this quote
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Use this quote
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. Use this quote
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Use this quote
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Use this quote
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Use this quote
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. Use this quote
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Use this quote
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Use this quote
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. Use this quote
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. Use this quote
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. Use this quote
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. Use this quote
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Use this quote
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. Use this quote
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Use this quote
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. Use this quote
A lot happens by accident in poetry. Use this quote