“Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.”
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“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.”
“I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.”
“What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.”
“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.”
“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.”
“Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.”
“The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.”
“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.”
“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.”
“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.”
“That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.”
“Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.”
“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.”
“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”
“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.”
“I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.”
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.”
“Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.”