To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
Growing rice gives you more than poetry will.
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
It's your life, not your death, that defines you.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bri...
