I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve in...
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader ...
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when...
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
I have to confess, there is no limit in beauty
Believing in yourself is the best poetry.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.
Your life is a poetry with purpose.
Money is a kind of poetry.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
