It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people...
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work...
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to...
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of...
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
The other side of it is that despite all that people reach out to poetry at...
That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's...
For whatever reason people including very well-educated people or people...
In my opinion the most significant works of the twentieth century are those...
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that...
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry...
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion but I keep writing about...
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that...
The irony is going to work every day became the subject of probably my best...
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work...
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two...
That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is...
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry...
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown...
Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes...
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles...
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value though the...
If we ask a vague question such as 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague...
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or...
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though...
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the...
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and...
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my...
I have always made my own rules in poetry as in life - though I have tried...
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas as it were.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature especially in lyric poetry.
That is what I did with Jack and that's why he liked to do the readings with...
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme...
