You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the...
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically...
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of...
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain...
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing...
Religious poetry civic poetry lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories...
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the...
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet and it is impossible to...
Never fear: Thank Home and Poetry and the Force behind both.
Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it...
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the...
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge...
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside...
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't...
There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.
But for me being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being...
And there are a lot more people reading poetry but there are not so many...
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand...
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't...
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The...
Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to...
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their...
Poetry is composing for the breath.
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task simply because the reason one does it...
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any....
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that...
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
I had art as a major along with English French and History. I had dance...
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very...
Children can write poetry and then unless they're poets they stop when...
Poetry is life distilled.
I see people who talk about America and then undermine it by not paying...
