Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Use this quote
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. Use this quote
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. Use this quote
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. Use this quote
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. 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
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. Use this quote
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. Use this quote
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. Use this quote
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Use this quote
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. Use this quote
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. Use this quote
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Use this quote
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. Use this quote
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. Use this quote
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Use this quote
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Use this quote
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Use this quote
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. 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