For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
Well I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven writing...
Well the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the...
I published privately a collection of my serious poetry I had written over...
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile even though...
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry unless of course the life...
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is not to lie but...
And yet in a culture like ours which is given to material comforts and...
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear...
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of...
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal...
Poetry is something that happens in universities in creative writing...
Poetry is first and last language - the rest is filler.
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the...
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry but obviously like everybody I...
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal...
I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was...
From reading a previous answer you know that I consider all those aspects to...
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's...
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with...
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I...
Because in fact women feminists do read my poetry and they read it often...
Still language is resilient and poetry when it is pressured simply goes...
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other...
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art and American...
But I don't think that poetry is a good to use a contemporary word venue...
But I am not political in the current events sense and I have never wanted...
American poetry like American painting is always personal with an emphasis...
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books......
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the...
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit...
I think poetry is best read to oneself.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things...
The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it...
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
