One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Use this quote
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. Use this quote
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Use this quote
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. Use this quote
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Use this quote
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. Use this quote
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. Use this quote
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. Use this quote
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Use this quote
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Use this quote
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Use this quote
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. 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
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Use this quote
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
God is the perfect poet. Use this quote
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Use this quote
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. Use this quote
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Use this quote
