I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. Use this quote
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. Use this quote
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. Use this quote
Poetry: the best words in the best order. 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
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Use this quote
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. Use this quote
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. Use this quote
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. Use this quote
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. Use this quote
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. Use this quote
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. Use this quote
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Use this quote
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. Use this quote
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. Use this quote
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. Use this quote
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Use this quote
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. Use this quote
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Use this quote
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. Use this quote
