All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Use this quote
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Use this quote
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Use this quote
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Use this quote
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Use this quote
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. Use this quote
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Use this quote
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. Use this quote
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Use this quote
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Use this quote
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. Use this quote
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. Use this quote
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. Use this quote
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. Use this quote
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Use this quote
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Use this quote
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. Use this quote
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. Use this quote
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. Use this quote
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. Use this quote