...everywhere I am is true.
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real be...
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice.
Read. You can always talk with another reader.
If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
