Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Use this quote
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. Use this quote
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. Use this quote
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? Use this quote
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. 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
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. Use this quote
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Use this quote
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. Use this quote
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. Use this quote
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. Use this quote
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. Use this quote
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. Use this quote
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. Use this quote
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. Use this quote
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. Use this quote
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Use this quote
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Use this quote
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. Use this quote
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. Use this quote
