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Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying civilization together. It's like shoe laces, it holds things together.
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write an editorial. I hope I can write about Trump; he's too major a force not to be written about.