Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.
If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
