The appreciative smile the chuckle the soundless mirth so important to the success of comedy cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
If a poem is not memorable there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it...
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
