Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.