The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Use this quote
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Use this quote
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Use this quote
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. Use this quote
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Use this quote
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Use this quote
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Use this quote
A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. Use this quote
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. Use this quote
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Use this quote
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. Use this quote
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Use this quote
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. Use this quote
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. Use this quote
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. Use this quote
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. Use this quote
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. Use this quote
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Use this quote
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. Use this quote
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. Use this quote
