Poetry being. . . when we look from the center outward.
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Poetry is a dangerous gift.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight. . . every word is war.