And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. Use this quote
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. Use this quote
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Use this quote
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. Use this quote
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. Use this quote
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. Use this quote
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Use this quote
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. Use this quote
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. Use this quote
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Use this quote
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Use this quote
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Use this quote
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. Use this quote
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Use this quote
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Use this quote
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. Use this quote
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. Use this quote
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. Use this quote
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. Use this quote
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. Use this quote
