The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Use this quote
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. Use this quote
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. Use this quote
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Use this quote
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. Use this quote
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. Use this quote
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Use this quote
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. Use this quote
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. Use this quote
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. Use this quote
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. Use this quote
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Use this quote
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Use this quote
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Use this quote
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Use this quote
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. Use this quote
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. Use this quote
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. Use this quote
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. Use this quote
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. Use this quote
