Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. Use this quote
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Use this quote
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. Use this quote
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Use this quote
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Use this quote
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. 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
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. Use this quote
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. Use this quote
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. Use this quote
The crown of literature is poetry. Use this quote
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. 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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Use this quote
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Use this quote
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. 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
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Use this quote
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. Use this quote
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. Use this quote
