I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
