If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself...
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all because I'm not smart enough...
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses...
We all need ways to express ourselves and poetry is one of mine.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people...
If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor...
I want to write a book of poetry as well as children's stories.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry...
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first...
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
But it is the province of religion of philosophy of pure poetry only to go...
Poetry teaches us music metaphor condensation and specificity.
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as...
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other...
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s...
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing and they seemed to be...
I love painting and music of course. I don't know nearly as much about them...
As for political poetry as it's usually defined it seems there's very...
Poetry especially traditional Iranian poetry is very good at looking at...
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other...
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an...
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities...
I used to write sonnets and various things and moved from there into writing...
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry....
I heard Nirvana and discovered that songs could be like poetry but a little...
I've always written. When I was in school the only teacher who ever liked me...
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound both aloud...
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been...
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry as in fiction. I just think it's...
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of...
My next project is to get back to that. Actually to learn how to write...
