The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.