I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.