In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.
