Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely, that he even pretends that it is pain the pain he really feels.
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself. . . Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
No time for poetry but exactly what is.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.