Quotes About Innovation

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Revolutions never go backward.