Poetry is composing for the breath. Use this quote
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. Use this quote
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Use this quote
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. Use this quote
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Use this quote
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. Use this quote
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. Use this quote
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Use this quote
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. 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
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Use this quote
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. 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
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. Use this quote
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Use this quote
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. Use this quote
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. Use this quote
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. Use this quote
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. Use this quote
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Use this quote
