Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Use this quote
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Use this quote
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. 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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Use this quote
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. Use this quote
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Use this quote
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Use this quote
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. 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
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. Use this quote
The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female. Use this quote
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. Use this quote
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. 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
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Use this quote
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Use this quote
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. Use this quote
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. Use this quote
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Use this quote
