Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. Use this quote
I love romantic poetry. Use this quote
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. Use this quote
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Use this quote
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. Use this quote
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. Use this quote
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. Use this quote
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Use this quote
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. Use this quote
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. Use this quote
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Use this quote
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Use this quote
Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Use this quote
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Use this quote
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Use this quote
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Use this quote
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. Use this quote
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. Use this quote
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Use this quote
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Use this quote
