Quotes About Author

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.