My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

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.