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
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Use this quote
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Use this quote
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. Use this quote
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Use this quote
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. Use this quote
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. Use this quote
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. Use this quote
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Use this quote
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Use this quote
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Use this quote
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. Use this quote
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Use this quote
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. Use this quote
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Use this quote
Poetry is a sort of homecoming. Use this quote
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. Use this quote
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. Use this quote
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming. Use this quote
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Use this quote