I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
