The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. Use this quote
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. Use this quote
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Use this quote
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. Use this quote
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. Use this quote
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Use this quote
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Use this quote
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. Use this quote
Why should poetry have to make sense? Use this quote
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. Use this quote
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. Use this quote
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Use this quote
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. Use this quote
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. Use this quote
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Use this quote
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. Use this quote
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. Use this quote
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Use this quote
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Use this quote
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. Use this quote
