If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children things that touch your soul.
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine...
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have...
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind...
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry and that's a...
To be born in Wales not with a silver spoon in your mouth but with music...
When I hit a block regardless of what I am writing what the subject matter...
Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can...
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as...
When you're looking that far out you're giving people their place in the...
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world poetry would be invented...
I want a fever in poetry: a fever and tranquillity.
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by...
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of...
There are men who can write poetry and there are men who can read balance...
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
We recognise in the finished art which is the result of these conditions...
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is...
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the...
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire even though the desire be...
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
If it is an imperfect word no external circumstance can heighten its value...
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent the moods of man are...
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with...
Any long work in which poetry is persistent be it epic or drama or narrative...
A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is...
Poetry can't cure cancer but it can save your life until you die.
Because people are very interested in my poetry in what I say.
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of...
Theater is far superior to film in poetry in abstract poetry.
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after...
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that...
Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's...
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
In politics as in poetry it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
