Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.
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.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
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.
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
I'm really into poetry.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.
