Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

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 found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.