The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing singing drinking dancing making love holding the streets picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

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.

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.

Never fear: Thank Home and Poetry and the Force behind both.

Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge visionary poetry in it.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.

But for me being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.