The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
