Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
I'm really into poetry.
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
I am a poet, and I speak poetically.
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
It's not easy to define poetry.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
I love an imperfect rhyme.
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
I'm a poet.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
