Poetry is life distilled.

I see people who talk about America and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul to its poetry. I see polarization reductionism and superficiality.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed and two others I'm working on.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth to learn how to do that to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

If there's no money in poetry neither is there poetry in money.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10 000 people.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Science and art or by the same token poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Poetry it is often said and loudly so is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry more akin to drama if you will.

On the other hand if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

If you don't mark your successes the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office and there's no poetry in that.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

You can find poetry in your everyday life your memory in what people say on the bus in the news or just what's in your heart.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated unlike poetry which is more equal.