My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I...
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry...
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
Poetry isn't a profession it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put...
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry...
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
On July 26 1916 I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I...
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the...
A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of...
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry it's just obtuse to them....
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I...
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress so I...
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old...
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation...
In the language of poetry where every word is weighed nothing is usual or...
Unfortunately poetry is not born in noise in crowds or on a bus. There...
Everyone needs solitude especially a person who is used to thinking about...
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point...
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Poetry is a form of mathematics a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it...
For me poetry is a situation - a state of being a way of facing life and...
What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of...
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand...
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language which is the...
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at...
As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Rap is poetry to music like beatniks without beards and bongos.
Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to...
That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently...
If epic poetry is a definite species the sagas do not fall within it.
By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has...
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that for a minute the clouds...
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the...
