Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.
Most modern comedy is crap.
Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
Don't be afraid of poetry.
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
From I, we, and now us.
