I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.
I feel very connected to poets across the country.
Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
