“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.”
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“I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.”
“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”
“Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.”
“We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.”
“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.”
“Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”
“I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.”
“In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.”
“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.”
“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.”
“I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.”
“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.”
“Poetry is a totally different art than film.”
“Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.”
“That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.”
“I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.”
“I love to write poetry.”
“I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.”
“The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.”
“Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.”
“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.”
“I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.”