I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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