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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.