Famous Quotes: Poetry

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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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.
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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
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