And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their stor...
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
The cliche is dead poetry.
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
