My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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.
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it. " I hate that type of stuff.
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
I don't want to bury anything in poetry.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation. . . A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.
Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.