He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Never fear: Thank Home and Poetry and the Force behind both.

Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge visionary poetry in it.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry as such.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things but they are the state of human existence.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I had art as a major along with English French and History. I had dance modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry which I eventually got published.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Children can write poetry and then unless they're poets they stop when reach puberty.