You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
