Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Use this quote
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. Use this quote
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Use this quote
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Use this quote
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. 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
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Use this quote
Poetry is life distilled. Use this quote
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Use this quote
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. Use this quote
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. Use this quote
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Use this quote
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. 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
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. Use this quote
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. Use this quote
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. Use this quote
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. Use this quote
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Use this quote
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. Use this quote
