Poetry is rather an approach to things to life than it is typographical production.

And I mean I think poetry does need to be met to some extent especially I guess 19th century poetry and for me it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

In my late teenage years I developed a real passion for it and wrote a lot of poetry.

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Poetry is like a bird it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

In fact in lyric poetry truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

A theology should be like poetry which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there looking at art books and reading poetry.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.