I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. Use this quote
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. Use this quote
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. Use this quote
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. Use this quote
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Use this quote
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Use this quote
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. Use this quote
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Use this quote
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! 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
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. Use this quote
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Use this quote
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. 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
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Use this quote
The moment of change is the only poem. Use this quote
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. Use this quote
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. Use this quote
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Use this quote
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Use this quote
