Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of...
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior...
I like poems that are little games.
I still read Donne particularly his love poems.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading...
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
The novel is born of disillusionment the poem of despair.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
The poet may be used as a barometer but let us not forget that he is also...
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means you have missed...
Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for...
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our...
The moment of change is the only poem.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all...
Every single soul is a poem.
Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to...
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
