Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
I have a very close relationship with my parents.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
My heart is like a singing bird.
We only part to meet again.
