I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.
If you try you would never be alone; because the whole world is tired of loneliness.
They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.
We are very much in love; when I call her angel, she calls me demon.
I haven’t seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are.
It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you.
When I look at you; I feel that God must have created you for himself.
