I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. Use this quote
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Use this quote
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. Use this quote
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Use this quote
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. Use this quote
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Use this quote
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. 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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Use this quote
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. Use this quote
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Use this quote
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Use this quote
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. Use this quote
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. Use this quote
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Use this quote
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Use this quote
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. Use this quote
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. 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
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. Use this quote
