I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Use this quote
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. Use this quote
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. Use this quote
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Use this quote
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. 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
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. Use this quote
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Use this quote
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Use this quote
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. Use this quote
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. 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
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Use this quote
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. Use this quote
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. 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 despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Use this quote
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Use this quote
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. Use this quote
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Use this quote
