So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

I want to write a book of poetry as well as children's stories.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

But it is the province of religion of philosophy of pure poetry only to go beyond life beyond time into eternity.

Poetry teaches us music metaphor condensation and specificity.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write but it's not.